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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Boy Riding a Tricycle
1943
A boy wearing overalls is riding a tricycle outdoors. A caption identifies him as John Peters.
Hammering Nails
1940
A boy is sitting on the ground and getting ready to hammer nails through two boards.
Calisthenics
circa 1938
A child is posing, perhaps in mid push-up, in a front yard. A caption identifies the child as Rudy Vertiska.
Catching a Water Balloon
July 13, 1989
A boy stretches to catch a water-filled balloon.
Summer Reading
Woman lying in the grass reading near an umbrella along a shoreline. A boat is beached on the right, and in the background is a fence and hill.
